“sure kagi is an extremely unethical company that sends part of everyone’s subscription fees to Russia for search indexing and Musk so grok can enable the AI horseshit nobody but kagi’s CEO wants, but what alternative do you recommend” I recommend not being part of the problem for once in your life, you fucking shithead
@zzt well this fucking shithead uses Kagi because it fucking works.
Let's not let perfect become the enemy of the good here. I am in no way saying the CEO is a good man, but the values of the product itself are aligned with my own.
@jaredwhite oh I see, I was meant to read “ResistanceNet ✊” in the same voice as one reads “The Aristocrats” at the end of the joke. my mistake.
there are no good search engines left and paying for kagi makes that situation worse
go use one of the small ones that sucks at search and help make it better. don’t come on here and roleplay like you’re doing us a fucking favor by paying kagi’s token bill
@zzt
and if you want to pay for a search engine: maybe uruky?
the results are okay and get better with personalization, the philosophy of the couple behind seems nice. and the UI is perfectly boring (no AI, just some links …)
for the curious: https://uruky.com
interview with bruno: https://theprivacydad.com/interview-with-the-engineer-of-uruky-a-private-search-engine/
@hotzenplotz @zzt is that another Tolkien company name
lol no, google being a notoriously unethical monopolist and our enemy doesn’t make their competition ethical and our friends
google being an AI profiteer doesn’t make kagi anti-AI
two companies at different sizes can both be bad. the smaller one can even be dependent on and propped up by companies just like google! and in kagi’s case we know it is!
my posts are targeted at adults so I figured the above didn’t need to be said but I guess not????
@zzt It's hard only being able to spend ones anger tokens on one thing at a time, isn't it? If only humans were capable of multitasking, of complexity and didn't have to recite all the things they care about from a Blockchain ledger every time they level criticism at anything.